It might seem like a pedantic argument—and in the comments of a post about a quadcopter, it often is—but language shapes the way we engage with our technology. By putting such a wide variety of machines under one umbrella, we're changing their relationships to each other, and our relationship to them.

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What can or should be called a drone is an argument we've had here at Gizmodo more than once. We have a lot of different, strong opinions on the subject. But now it's time to sort it out once and for all, out in the open.